[0:16] we would like to call the regular
meeting of March 4th um to order we have
[0:22] a determination of a
quorum
[0:26] absent coming is um everyone is Pres
present and before we do the Pledge of
[0:32] Allegiance and a moment of Silent prayer
I just want to let everyone know that
[0:36] Miss Kaiser who attends our meetings
Faithfully for at least two decades that
[0:43] I know of she passed away on Saturday so
please remember her family and and in
[0:48] your thoughts and
prayers moment we're going to do the
[0:53] pledge of Alle
[1:00] States of America and to the for it
stands one nation God indivisible withy
[1:09] and justice for
all you remain standing for a moment of
[1:14] Silent
[1:19] prayer thank you the first item on our
agenda is the approval of the
[1:24] agenda so moves support Peterson motion
ALR support Peterson are there any
[1:31] changes or um anything to be pulled out
from the consent
[1:40] agenda hearing none all in favor I
opposed motion carries first item on the
[1:46] agenda is the consent agenda it's the
minutes of the February 18th regular
[1:51] meeting in statements and checks so move
Peterson motion Peterson support Thor
[1:58] support
any questions or
[2:03] comments it was support
thoron all in favor I opposed motion
[2:12] carries uh number five is a general
legal update Mr wyers mam chairperson uh
[2:18] just to give the yeah I start State the
court the board a brief update uh in
[2:24] regards to the ongoing issues of
inspections at Harbor one Apartments as
[2:29] is all of your aware
the city continues to do their
[2:32] inspections on the city Side on the
township side our inspections will start
[2:38] uh next week and there's a team
assembled to go through the town homes
[2:43] uh we're not expecting to see what has
occurred over there in the in the city
[2:47] side but at the same time I know uh
supervisor stumo myself and ordinance or
[2:54] compliance
community community compliance director
[2:58] Kingsley we have participated in a
number of Zoom meetings with Misha as
[3:04] well as with the inber Housing
Commission and from those meetings it
[3:08] has become apparent that there are
multiple agencies all of which are
[3:13] issuing vouchers but there's a
multiplicity of inspections that are
[3:18] going on but there's no
centralized U place to rec to to file
[3:25] those inspection reports in other words
the city's doing theirs the Township's
[3:29] doing ours m is doing the a inor Housing
Commission and so we have discussed the
[3:34] possibility of trying to streamline
those inspections so that there will be
[3:39] a central repository on all the uh uh
apartments in which uh Section 8
[3:46] vouchers or housing Choice vouchers are
being uh issued to to recipients so that
[3:53] we make sure that those units are in
keeping with the Township's established
[3:58] uh building codes um on a different note
the township continues to work with uh
[4:05] and the Planning Commission continues to
proceed with a number of projects the
[4:10] Culver's Restaurant uh was on the agenda
for the Planning Commission at the
[4:14] February 25th meeting has now been sent
to the zba for uh several variant
[4:22] requests the holiday and uh there'll be
be it is scheduled to be built behind
[4:28] Leo's corny over there on joall Drive
continues to make its way through the
[4:33] process and there would as well as a
need for another traffic signal at their
[4:38] intersection uh comfort in continues to
get close to getting their
[4:42] preconstruction meeting and they want to
be in the ground this coming summer and
[4:47] likewise the uh sheets uh 24hour um gas
station is on board to be um built this
[4:55] summer as well so there's a lot of
commercial activity in different
[4:58] different parts of the township and
we'll continue to keep you prized in
[5:02] regards to new ones that come along as
well as the outcome of our inspections
[5:07] that are scheduled for Arbor one uh the
next
[5:13] week thank you questions or
[5:17] comments hearing none we'll go on to new
business item number one is the approved
[5:22] the Michigan indep Indigent defense
Council contract with Washington County
[5:27] public defenders office for the
20242 fiscal year in the amount of$
[5:59] Services we used to contract out
privately for that but now we do it with
[6:04] washingon
County hearing know questions or
[6:08] comments all in favor I I opposed motion
carries the next item is to authorize
[6:14] was County Road commission for 2025
agreement for additional Township wide
[6:19] street sweeping and crack ceiling in the
estimated estimated amount of
[6:25] $327 se1 which is budgeted move Peterson
motion Peterson support Swanson support
[6:33] Swanson other questions or comments on
this again this is another annual um
[6:41] contracts that we do there will be
another one that'll be brought back for
[6:45] the um improvements which will be a much
larger contract that'll be at a future
[6:50] board meeting all in favor I opposed
motion carries item number three is the
[6:57] appointment of Georgia violent to the an
aror area Transportation Authority AAAA
[7:04] Board of director directors with the
term ending 430 of 2029 so Mo
[7:12] Peterson motion Peterson support
[7:17] row M georgees is here yes you'll be
happy to just go to the microphone if
[7:22] you'd
[7:28] like is it turn turned on I think it is
yes would you like to just tell us a
[7:35] little bit about yourself and your resum
was in the packet okay yes um I did
[7:40] submit my resume um I'm Georgia
Valentine I reside in iany Township I am
[7:46] currently an employee of was County I
work for the public defender office as a
[7:51] legal assistant um I've been with Wason
County for 28 years uh in October um I a
[8:00] student at Eastern Michigan University
pursuing a major in public and nonprofit
[8:05] Administration as well as minoring in
elderly uh or aging studies is what they
[8:11] call it now um I saw the post on
Facebook that you had a vacancy to serve
[8:18] on the aaata board for Ipsy Township and
um I thought I should apply I'm um
[8:26] excited and uh humbled and honored to be
appointed to the position and I look
[8:31] forward to serving the community as far
as their needs go regarding um
[8:36] transportation thank you yeah thank you
very much other questions or
[8:41] comments hearing none all in favor of
appointing Georgia Valentine say I I
[8:47] oppose motion carries congratulations
thank you
[8:55] [Applause]
[9:01] the next item on the agenda is to
approve a five-year extension agreement
[9:05] with WJ O'Neal company for HVAC control
services in the amount of $
[9:13] 74,7 which is budgeted in the different
line
[9:17] items so
moves support Peterson motion Eldridge
[9:23] support
Peterson good evening John Hines
[9:27] Municipal service director uh before
speaking on the memorandum I wanted to
[9:32] take the chance since I did not at the
last board meeting to introduce the
[9:35] board officially to Matthew doring who
is the new park superintendent for the
[9:39] township uh Matt's been working for us
for about two weeks now and comes with
[9:43] over 20 years of experience and uh
working on Park maintenance and uh
[9:48] facility Grounds Maintenance and has
been a welcome addition to the team so
[9:52] you'll see him out and about uh in the
Parks quite a bit this
[9:56] year welcome
[10:00] okay thank you so uh before you is a
request for a 5year extension with WJ
[10:05] O'Neal for our HVAC system this would be
for our controls which allow myself and
[10:10] other staff remote access to all the
HVAC for the four affirm mention sites
[10:16] which are part of the extension
agreement as well which would be our law
[10:19] enforcement center the Civic Center the
community center and the court the price
[10:25] for 2025 would be the price that we've
paid over the last 5year agreement
[10:29] and then it' be a 5% increase for 2026
to 2029 and the rate listed under those
[10:36] years would be the rate each year WJ
O'Neal has been the Township's primary
[10:40] HVAC vendor since 2018 again coming off
a five-year agreement uh that ended at
[10:45] the end of last
[10:49] year questions or
comments hearing none all in favor I I
[10:55] opposed motion carries thank you John y
number five is approved change order
[11:01] number two with kab Enterprises for
[11:06] $746 for West Willow Park area project
which is
[11:10] budgeted still Move Motion Aldridge
support support
[11:16] row Mr hin yep uh so this is a request
to sign change order two with kab
[11:21] Enterprises for West Willow Park as part
of the arpa West Willow and Burns Park
[11:26] contract that was signed in
2024 uh this is the second change order
[11:30] as listed and it's for three items one
one and two are direct result of change
[11:36] order one that was signed because we
added the additional pathway work it um
[11:42] then added extra work on top of that
which was removal of safety surfacing
[11:46] was increased because there was actually
more material on site at the park
[11:50] pre-existing than we knew beforehand um
second is the restoration due to that
[11:56] removal and then third is a request to
extend the contract deadline uh from
[12:01] October 1st 2024 to May 1st 2025 I'm not
sure if you had the chance to go to West
[12:07] willower Burns Park but the parks are
about 98% done Burns Park is finished
[12:13] minus a little bit of touch-up on some
of the concrete and West Willow is
[12:17] finished except for putting the benches
back on the pathway that they were taken
[12:22] out of the playground area and then a
few areas where the asphalt was uh
[12:26] crumbled from their machines so they
just need to touch those up and all of
[12:30] that expects to happen as soon as the
weather allows and then both of those
[12:33] will be ready for final payment and
completion questions or comments mam
[12:40] chair John is the I'm sorry is the
equipment up
[12:44] also yes it is yeah at both parts yes so
we didn't uh replace Burns part right
[12:51] right but at West Willow it's done the
pathway is I have to go see that you
[12:54] should it looks really nice great great
thank you John mhm there's been a lot of
[12:59] positive feedback from what Willow
residents on the
[13:03] Improvement great I'm glad to hear again
it does look really nice and Paving of
[13:07] the pathway really made a big difference
yes yes and the last thing I want to add
[13:12] about the budget amendment is the funds
are being taken from a part an arpa
[13:17] purchase order that was under budget
last
[13:23] year
great questions or
[13:27] comments hearing none All In favor I
opposed motion carries thank you John
[13:34] number six is the approved upgrades to
the police camera system with a not to
[13:38] exceed project value of
[13:58] $188,100 Poli Services uh camera system
that allows our town Washington County
[14:03] Sheriff's Department to
uh assist in investigations we're in the
[14:09] process of upgrading the networks that
connect all these individual cameras
[14:14] together in a more secure reliable uh
fashion and what we found as we moved
[14:18] through the project is that a lot of the
boxes that are on the
[14:22] poles uh are in desperate need of
service some of them are leaking some of
[14:27] them are uh not are too small they don't
have proper environmental controls the
[14:33] boxes are getting too hot uh so it came
in discussion between myself DSC who is
[14:42] our new camera support vendor and
Comcast who would be putting the
[14:45] equipment in the box that it is uh best
recommended that we actually replace all
[14:51] the or most of the boxes that are on the
poles we're trying to pick and choose
[14:55] which boxes we have to replace
uh to best you know protect the
[15:01] investment that we have on these polls
the other aspect to the request is the
[15:07] necessary upgrades to the servers that
store all the camera video footage
[15:13] itself these servers are extremely dated
they're over
[15:17] capacity uh and you we need to replace
them within the next year uh Windows 10
[15:27] is end of life in o
October after that you know there's no
[15:31] way we can get security patches for the
actual camera servers themselves uh
[15:37] because they won't support any of the
latest operating systems
[15:41] so happy to answer any questions thank
you Travis questions or
[15:48] comments hearing
none all in favor I I opposed motion
[15:56] carries number seven is budget amendment
number three k
[16:02] Swanson
to sorry sorry sorry motion to amend the
[16:07] 2025 budget number three move to
increase the general fund budget by
[16:15] 7,464 to
2,62 21,
[16:23] 62488 and to improve Department line
item changes is
[16:27] outlined move to increase the law
enforcement fund by 100,000 to
[16:36] 10,241
1827 and approve the department line
[16:40] items as outlined so moved Swanson
motion
[16:46] Swanson support support
row
[16:52] discussion hearing none all in favor I
opposed motion carries authorization in
[17:00] bids we have accept the low bid from
Jean butman Ford for the purchase of one
[17:04] Ford F-150 in the amount of
5234
[17:10] 625 which is
budgeted motion row support support
[17:20] thoron discussion I didn't have my mic
on that motion was by Lovejoy row so
[17:25] sorry motion I said motion row is I they
oh thank messed up I was fixing it sorry
[17:35] thank you yeah I hear you but the
audience to hear Goa thank you well the
[17:39] person doing the
minutes questions or comments I'm happy
[17:45] to see a local vendor um received the
bid for the vehicle all in favor I I
[17:52] opposed motion carries there's no other
business are there public comments and
[17:59] you have three minutes you'd like to say
if you're from the township or not that
[18:03] would be
[18:08] great Jeremy Haley um my thing is the
summer jazz festival thing is coming up
[18:16] at for Lake
Park and I what I last meeting I was at
[18:20] the County Board of Commissioners I
asked him a certain question they were
[18:25] all in supportive of it but a few were
hesitant about it in a way
[18:31] because they they said they give the
amount about
[18:35] $10,000 to the F to help it
continue and they said they have not
[18:42] received a p some paperwork from you
that they had asked about what you
[18:47] received in
parking
[18:51] and and some of them held reservation on
saying that the County Board of
[18:57] Commissioners are giving
this thing money to go but yet the
[19:03] Township's charging money for people
access to a free concert for parking
[19:11] fees and some of them had reservations
about that
[19:16] issue as to why are we giving money here
out of our budget and the townships just
[19:23] charging people $10 to get in for the
access to the best you know music
[19:31] thing just let let you know how they
answer it freely you can go back I think
[19:36] a few weeks or not at the last me you
can hear the responses
[19:40] whatnot but it is something i' assess
the whole board to consider how to
[19:48] remediate this situation like that cuz
it he offers it as a free concert but
[19:53] yet when you pull up you charge $10 to
get into the park
[19:59] is thank you to my knowledge no one has
reached out to us but we will reach out
[20:06] to the County Board of Commissioners to
find out they normally give money to the
[20:11] Johnny Lawrence organization not to
ipsan Township well I know that that's
[20:16] what I said so I I'm not sure but no
one's reached out to us yet to my
[20:20] knowledge but I'll follow up
thank any other public
[20:27] comment here none I'm sorry M J's waving
oh I'm sorry can you go to the
[20:35] microphone please color is the truck
going to
[20:41] be
[Music]
[20:46] silver good question all
right are there a board member comments
[20:53] do we have any board member
comments we had quite a few meetings
[20:57] this week I won't go through them all
one of the um most important meeting was
[21:01] a stakeholder meeting we had internally
with the um washaw County Drain
[21:05] Commission and um omm who did the flood
study report and um there was a large
[21:14] amount of people around the table and
then we presented they presented and to
[21:18] the public last Thursday I think it was
and there was a good turn
[21:23] out so the township um was a $400,000
study that we partnered with the um
[21:30] Water Resource Commission and there's
lots of recommendations in there and
[21:35] it's somewhere around 30 million for
suggested improvements and we were
[21:41] trying to we're going to regroup and
just figure out how can we also help
[21:46] with um getting information out to
residents on things that they can do at
[21:50] their home to prevent um yucko was there
as well there's backflow preventers that
[21:57] can be installed that would help
especially if it's in a known area yaka
[22:02] was looking at doing a pilot project to
see if they could partner because it's F
[22:08] say it's $4,000 $5,000 that's a lot of
money so they're looking to partner in a
[22:13] shared cost with people to help for
future
[22:17] flooding there's things with the down
spouts that actually go into some of the
[22:23] homes um storm water goes into their
sewer so when there's a lot of water it
[22:30] fills up and causes a back a backup so
there's things that are going to be
[22:35] recommended and they had educational
pieces that were being handed out but um
[22:41] so we're still in that process and
they'll do a presentation to the board
[22:44] as
well that meeting happened um we met
[22:48] with um U
ofm today and talked about some of the
[22:55] Partnerships and we also asked them
about the electrical question that was
[23:00] asked at the last board meeting will the
data center they're proposing take from
[23:05] our electrical grid and they said that
um the plan is to add a substation so it
[23:12] will not affect the our um residents and
our businesses um supply of electricity
[23:21] so that was the answer that they
provided and as we move forward in
[23:26] partnering with them we we'll let you
guys know when there's something solid
[23:30] right now we're just talking in
developing relationships we talked about
[23:34] Economic
Development um marketing but those talks
[23:39] are just still going and um they said
it's still not been formally announced
[23:46] of when they're going to do it they
still thought they would get the funding
[23:50] from the federal government so it's a
$1.5
[23:55] billion
investment and 200 jobs supposedly but
[24:01] nothing is really solid right now so
once it gets solid and they announce it
[24:06] and start um informing us of more of
what they're doing then we will they
[24:12] said they're going to come to a board
meeting and do a presentation so
[24:15] everyone can hear it so a resident came
in and asked us about that and reminded
[24:21] me that we need to update the board
here did you want to talk about that or
[24:26] did you want okay and then the um we had
firefighter interviews there were three
[24:32] vacancies um currently we have 10 people
to interview we interviewed three so
[24:38] this week we're going to wrap it up and
um fill the vacancies in the fire
[24:43] department good candidates very good and
finally a resident came to visit at the
[24:49] counter and suggested that we have um uh
was called a hyperlink and I'm not even
[24:55] sure how that works but on our agenda
packet so you can hear the audio while
[25:01] you're looking at the agenda and I know
that our click's office was looking into
[25:05] that so it was a great idea and
suggestion by our residents just by
[25:11] having a conversation that's all I
have okay uh Christina Reeves I um you
[25:18] mentioned about the uh a committee for
the parking Rec up for the community
[25:24] center that's being built and I signed
but I haven't heard anything yeah we
[25:29] haven't had a meeting with them yet to
determine that I did send an email and
[25:33] let them know that we had some board
members and um residents that were
[25:38] interested in it we're supposed to have
a follow-up meeting because I've never
[25:42] met with them in a with their group yet
other than um that one meeting oneon-one
[25:47] so we're having a follow-up meeting next
week with the um Parks and Recreation
[25:52] Department or was County Parks and R
okay thank
[25:56] you motion to adjourn Madam chair oh I'm
sorry trusty Peterson just very quickly
[26:01] I didn't hear you mention a couple more
meetings who went to we went to Golf
[26:05] Village resident meeting yeah they are
asking that the board if you come to the
[26:11] next meeting to bring uh Easter candy
can you the mic Easter candy to donate
[26:20] to the um children in that neighborhood
G Village okay also went to the
[26:26] African-American celebration
uh that was at the Civic Center Bron and
[26:31] I attend and then we also attended the
senior uh meeting at the county with
[26:37] Justin Hodge and the seniors showed up
very well to discuss that $1 million at
[26:43] the county so we thank you Gloria thank
you motion to
[26:49] adjourn motion Eldridge supp support row
all in favor I I opposed motion
[26:58] adjourned at 6:27 and God bless Miss
Kaiser yes
[27:04] ma'am miss
her oh my God hard to
[27:10] believe oh yeah John was there you
should have told me I seen you coming
[27:15] from the side I'm sorry you should have
said and my me too yeah I seen you
[27:20] coming from the side
[27:27] [Applause]
you